Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
A sea -monster am I, or a dragon, That thou settest over me a guard?
New American Standard Bible
That You set a guard over me?
King James Version
Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?
Holman Bible
that You keep me under guard?
International Standard Version
Am I the sea, or a sea monster, that you keep watching me?
A Conservative Version
Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, that thou set a watch over me?
American Standard Version
Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, That thou settest a watch over me?
Amplified
“Am I the sea, or the sea monster,
That You set a guard over me?
Bible in Basic English
Am I a sea, or a sea-beast, that you put a watch over me?
Darby Translation
Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, that thou settest a watch over me?
Julia Smith Translation
Am I the sea, or a dragon, that thou wilt set a watch over me?
King James 2000
Am I a sea, or a sea monster, that you set a watch over me?
Lexham Expanded Bible
Am I [the] sea, or a sea monster, that you set a guard over me?
Modern King James verseion
Am I like the sea, or a whale, that You set a watch over me?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Am I a sea, or a whalefish, that thou keepest me so in prison?
NET Bible
Am I the sea, or the creature of the deep, that you must put me under guard?
New Heart English Bible
Am I a sea, or a sea monster, that you put a guard over me?
The Emphasized Bible
Am, I, a sea, or a sea-monster, - That thou shouldst set over me a watch?
Webster
Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?
World English Bible
Am I a sea, or a sea monster, that you put a guard over me?
Interlinear
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 7:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
Don'T Forget!
11 Also I -- I withhold not my mouth -- I speak in the distress of my spirit, I talk in the bitterness of my soul. 12 A sea -monster am I, or a dragon, That thou settest over me a guard? 13 When I said, 'My bed doth comfort me,' He taketh away in my talking my couch.
Names
Cross References
Job 7:17
What is man that Thou dost magnify him? And that Thou settest unto him Thy heart?
Job 38:6-11
On what have its sockets been sunk? Or who hath cast its corner-stone?
Job 41:1-34
Dost thou draw leviathan with an angle? And with a rope thou lettest down -- his tongue?
Lamentations 3:7
He hath hedged me about, and I go not out, He hath made heavy my fetter.
Ezekiel 32:2-3
Son of man, lift up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and thou hast said unto him: A young lion of nations thou hast been like, And thou art as a dragon in the seas, And thou comest forth with thy flowings, And dost trouble the waters with thy feet, And thou dost foul their flowings.